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       1. March 2008

Quote of the Month

• With this switch, we've gone from playing in the sandbox to getting our doctoral degree. You can't even compare Red Hat GFS to Solaris ZFS. We no longer need to do all those chores we had to do with Linux. I can't even quantify the number of man-hours we freed by moving to Solaris. We have so much more time to develop our software now."-- Joshua Rand, CEO, Sapotek Inc, in SearchEnterpriseLinux
• It's simply the most innovative version of a server operating system this decade." -- 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms
• ZFS breaks all the rules here, and it arrives in an amazingly well-thought-out and nicely implemented solution." -- 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage

Noteworthy News:

• Intel and Sun celebrated one year working on the OpenSolaris project (here, here).
• Tim Foster published his "OpenSolaris News" review.
• The Innovation Awards Project announced details for the OpenSolaris community to participate in the Sun sponsored $1 Million Innovation Awards Program. Press release here.

User Groups

December

• The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met in December where Bob Netherton presented on Project Indiana.
• The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) got together on December 19th.  James MacFarlene talked on Solaris 8 Migration Assistant and Isamu Shigemori presented Solaris Utilities and Libraries.
• The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on December 19th.  Andre Van Eyssen presented SSSGD for the masses, Atul Vidwansa presented Lustre on ZFS and Nathan Kroenert spoke on Xen of Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris.
  
• The JPOSUG (Japan OpenSolaris User Group) met to for a Solaris Night Seminar in Tokyo. Photos here. There was two new user groups proposed and approved recently -- Serbia and Porto Alegre. Also, OpenSolaris User Groups can order a User Group Kit for their members until Feb 8th. Kits will include OpenSolaris Starter Kits, t-shirts, baseball hits, and bottle openers. All 58 OpenSolaris User Groups are listed here. To start an OpenSolaris User Group, check with the Advocacy Community Group.

January

• The BJOSUG (Beijing OpenSolaris User Group) held their first meeting on January 10th, 2008.  Amiram Hayardeny presented on OpenSolaris, Alex Peng spoke on xVM and Robin Guo presented ZFS.
• The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on January 16th, 2008.  Phil Kirk presented NWAM, Clearview, Brussels, and Crossbow. 
  
• The The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on January 16th.  Andre Van Eyssen talked on Jumpstart and Jet and Nathan Kroenert presented Ldoms on Sun4v/OpenSolaris.
• The SDOSUG (San Diego OpenSolaris User Goup) met on January 16th.  Ryan Scott presented Xen Technology in OpenSolaris.
• The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSoalris User Group) met on January 24th.  James Hughes presented a live demonstration and discussion of the Indiana preview 1 installation, configuration and upgrade.
• The IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 17th meeting on January 31st to discuss news from December and January.

Conferences

• OpenSolaris Day Atlanta was held on January 9th, 2008.  Download presentations here.
• The 2nd annual CommunityOne conference will be held in San Francisco on May 5, 2008.
• DTrace developers will be meeting in San Francisco on March 14. Details here and here.
• The Spring 2008 OpenSolaris Developer Summit will be May 3rd and 4th in San Francisco.
• The OpenSolaris community participated in multiple technical sessions at FOSS.IN in Bangalore, India. The Bangalore OpenSolaris User Groups also held a meeting and other activities. Some blogs and photos here, here, here, here, here.

Portals:

• The OpenSolaris Korea Portal opened in December. All 12 OpenSolaris Country Portals can be found here.

Technical Status

New Components

• The source code for the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition product was available on Dec 04. in the HA Clusters community.  Download and Build the product source code.

Contributions to consolidation code:

• There were 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in December and two in January,  bringing the total to 210. 
  
• Thanks to Garrett D'Amore, Marc Glisse, Shivakumar GN, Masayuki Murayama, Rishi Nair, Rainer Orth, Peter Tribble for bug fixes.  Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: David Bustos, Suhasini Peddada, Ethan Quach, Petr Sumbera, Brian Utterback. 
  
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

New Distributions

• Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC2 was available on January 14th.  Download here

New Projects:

8 new projects opened in December and January:

Cluster agent: PostgreSQL
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ha-postgresql/

Device Mapper
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/devmapper

iSCSI Extensions for Remote DMA (iSER)
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/iser/

OpenRTI
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/openrti/

RDMA Offload Framework
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/rof/

Squashfs
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/squashfs/

TIPC
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tipc/

VSCAN service
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/vscan/




December/January's Newsletter Conrtibutor's
Contributors: Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Jim Grisanzio
How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate. Simply send news items to program-team mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is always looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.